Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on the walls of the caves ...

Female Asian hermit spiders gobble up their partners after mating, so males detach their penises and sometimes offer up an ...

The theory is that flying insects do not notice the web, fly into it, and get stuck. Orb webs created by Araneidae, ...

Spiders that make cob, funnel, or sheet webs need to live inside to survive - but those that make orb webs (the complex geometric kind) aren't actually house spiders - they probably just got in ...

The spiders have a silver-grey coloured abdomen with a brown oak leaf pattern on the back. The legs are dark brown with light brown bands. The markings are somewhat variable. Its webs seem at first ...

Each type of silk gland is associated with a particular spinneret. No species has all seven, but orb-web weavers have five. Spiders have structures called spinnerets on their abdomen, usually on the ...

Only around 30 percent of male orb web spiders (Argiope bruennichi) survive their first act of mating because they are devoured by their mates. But new research published in Animal Behaviour suggests ...

In their spare time, they have been developing a web-browser-based operating system called Orb. It is available for the princely sum of zero cheeseburgers and doesn’t need a high-spec machine to ...

Jumping spiders don’t build webs, but like their arachnid kin ... the strength of this spiders’ silk parallels—and even surpasses—that of most orb weaver spiders, which produce the strongest silks ...

Tangle web spiders, orb weavers, and tarantulas exhibit remarkable strategies, from strong webs to potent venom, to immobilize and consume their prey, showcasing nature's astonishing predator-prey ...

It usually takes around an hour for a spider to weave a web but this varies by species and by the type of web. If we take the classic orb web that we are all familiar with, there is usually a set ...